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Also Known As Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh al-Maʾmūn ibn al-Rashīd
Born 786 • Baghdad • Iraq
Died August 833 (aged 47) • Tarsus • Turkey
Title / Office caliph (813-833), Caliphate
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ
Muslim theologian
al-Hādī
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Mūsā I of Mali
Mūsā I of Mali
emperor of Mali
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Maḥmūd Ghāzān
Mongol ruler of Persia
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Ibn al-Ashʿath
Arab general
Qutaybah ibn Muslim
Arab general
ʿUmar II
Umayyad caliph
Sayf al-Dawlah
Ḥamdānid ruler
Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph